Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932100AbcCPFoC (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2016 01:44:02 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:44006 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754097AbcCPFoA (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2016 01:44:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 11:13:56 +0530 From: Pratyush Anand To: James Morse Cc: David Long , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Sandeepa Prabhu , William Cohen , Steve Capper , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marc Zyngier , Dave P Martin , Mark Rutland , Robin Murphy , Ard Biesheuvel , Jens Wiklander , Christoffer Dall , Alex =?iso-8859-1?Q?Benn=E9e?= , Yang Shi , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Viresh Kumar , "Suzuki K. Poulose" , Kees Cook , Zi Shen Lim , John Blackwood , Feng Kan , Balamurugan Shanmugam , Vladimir Murzin , Mark Salyzyn , Petr Mladek , Andrew Morton , Mark Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 3/9] arm64: add copy_to/from_user to kprobes blacklist Message-ID: <20160316054329.GC28915@dhcppc6.redhat.com> References: <1457501543-24197-1-git-send-email-dave.long@linaro.org> <1457501543-24197-4-git-send-email-dave.long@linaro.org> <56E858D8.8030300@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56E858D8.8030300@arm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2904 Lines: 68 On 15/03/2016:06:47:52 PM, James Morse wrote: > Hi David, > > On 09/03/16 05:32, David Long wrote: > > From: "David A. Long" > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/copy_from_user.S b/arch/arm64/lib/copy_from_user.S > > index 4699cd7..0ac2131 100644 > > --- a/arch/arm64/lib/copy_from_user.S > > +++ b/arch/arm64/lib/copy_from_user.S > > @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ > > .endm > > > > end .req x5 > > + .section .kprobes.text,"ax",%progbits > > ENTRY(__copy_from_user) > > ALTERNATIVE("nop", __stringify(SET_PSTATE_PAN(0)), ARM64_HAS_PAN, \ > > CONFIG_ARM64_PAN) > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/copy_to_user.S b/arch/arm64/lib/copy_to_user.S > > index 7512bbb..e4eb84c 100644 > > --- a/arch/arm64/lib/copy_to_user.S > > +++ b/arch/arm64/lib/copy_to_user.S > > @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ > > .endm > > > > end .req x5 > > + .section .kprobes.text,"ax",%progbits > > ENTRY(__copy_to_user) > > ALTERNATIVE("nop", __stringify(SET_PSTATE_PAN(0)), ARM64_HAS_PAN, \ > > CONFIG_ARM64_PAN) > > > > If I understand this correctly - you can't kprobe these ldr/str instructions as > the fault handler wouldn't find kprobe's out-of line version of the instruction > in the exception table... but why only these two functions? (for library > functions, we also have clear_user() and copy_in_user()...) May be not clear_user() because those are inlined, but may be __clear_user(). There can be many other functions (see [1], [2] and can be many more) which need to be blacklisted, but I think they can always be added latter on, and atleast this aspect should not hinder inclusion of these patches. > > The get_user()/put_user() stuff in uaccess.h gets inlined all over the kernel, I > don't think its feasible to put all of these in a separate section. Yes, It does not seem possible to blacklist inlined functions. There can be some other places like valid kprobable instructions in atomic context, .word instruction having data as valid instruction, etc... So, probably its not possible to make 100% safe, but yes wherever possible, we should take care. Infact, other ARCHs are also not completely safe. One can try to instrument kprobe on all the symbols in Kallsyms on an x86_64 machine and kernel crashes. > > Is it feasible to search the exception table at runtime instead? If an > address-to-be-kprobed appears in the list, we know it could generate exceptions, > so we should report that we can't probe this address. That would catch all of > the library functions, all the places uaccess.h was inlined, and anything new > that gets invented in the future. Sorry, probably I could not get it. How can an inlined addresses range be placed in exception table or any other code area. ~Pratyush [1] https://github.com/pratyushanand/linux/commit/855bc4dbb98ceafac4c933e00d203b1cd7ee9ca4 [2] https://github.com/pratyushanand/linux/commit/8bc586d6f767240e9ffa582f45a9ad11de47ecfb